Police Takedown Outside Bayside Performance
 

I'm usually not one to scream POLICE BRUTALITY but I'd say excessive force was used here.... and like Kevin said, our bikes can be really loud and we're not always looking at our mirrors, police should be aware of that when pulling over motorcyclists

two sides to every story, video alone looks rough

but its also your job to be aware of your surroundings as a rider, you can't just say, "oh i had no idea you were trying to pull me over, I was speeding around and never looked back."

Hard to say anything one way or the other with just this video, looks like he only got knee'd once though? Of course if he was wearing proper gear and not just a t shirt...

I have to laugh at Kevin Boisvert though, first for commenting on how the police took the guy down without having seen anything leading up to the arrest, and second for "He might not have known he was being chased", err sorry but it's your responsibility to be aware of your surroundings, last time I checked bikes have to have mirrors.

How do you propose they distinguish between someone not paying attention to their surroundings and someone intentionally running from the police?

The police aren't screwing around. If he did run, you have to expect that sort of thing is going to get you a beatdown.

I've been passed by a few bikes running from the police. Every one of them was flying!

Not sure, but sirens would help riders AND drivers, they weren't on at the beginning of that video... maybe they were on earlier but don't know why they would be turned off

also the way the helmet was ripped off :heckno:


I don't know if the rider was in the right at any point here but from what I can see he's pulled over, looked submissive, and the police didn't do much to de-escalate the situation.... of course we don't have audio so we don't know what was being said, but there wasn't a ton of time between the police stepping out of the car and on to him

From my understanding they would've turned them off to de-escalate the pursuit or try to prevent the guy from running again, just because they were off coming into this parking lot doesn't mean they were off the entire pursuit.

As far as how quickly they took him down, if the guy ran the police shouldn't be taking any chances, someone who runs is likely to either try to run again or do something stupid like pull a weapon.

He went down and didn't move but was still kneed 3 times for what reason exactly?
He's an idiot for riding the way he did.

Hard to say with no audio, I only count one knee at ~0:16 though, when are the other 2?

IMHO
Serves him right for trying to evade the police, I see 1 knee the officer used to put him on the ground .
Pretty standard procedure to hold a suspect down with your knees and radio in.
Rider prolly has a L or N for Bikes as well...BrokeBack

Kudos to the cop. If facts were true, rider was an a&&hole. Other cop should have had 3 free shots too.

Montague said the motorcyclist, who police first observed at 19th Avenue and Fraser Street, endangered others by weaving through traffic and pedestrians and speeding past a park while evading police as it tore down Fraser Street.

The motorcyclist blew past two stop signs and fled from a marked police car on 43rd Avenue, according to Montague.

Owner of Bayside should stop defending dycks that give other riders a bad rep.

VPD say motorcyclist seen in ?takedown video? was evading police and speeding - BC | Globalnews.ca

That's what you deserve for endangering innocent lives and running from the police.

Fucking people who don't own up to their mistakes. You're in the wrong, accept the consequences like a man. Crying claiming excessive force was used fuck you

People like that is what's wrong with society.

Damn that pisses me off. Clogging up our courts making our justice system look like a joke

I will pass judgement when I see the police videos.

Well theres no point making assumptions about what happened previously. I just feel like a traffic violation is not enough to warrant throwing a relatively complaint guy on the ground, kicking him a few times, the knee to the back, throwing his helmet -- which probably needs replacement and kicking his phone after he is already in handcuffs. The law is designed to punish this guy, breaking his shit out of spite isn't supposed to be part of that punishment.

Isn't it safer to assume the cops aren't going to play by the rules? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I'm not saying excessive force was due or was right, but for all we know, he was flipping them off while trying to elude them. In that case he was doing more than playing with fire.

fully agree, however just because he deserves it doesn't mean it's what should have been done. Like the guy above said, the courts are responsible for doling out punishment, not the police.

Yes, he was a danger on his bike weaving through parks/stop signs, but was he still being a danger standing next to his bike? The police should take every precaution to protect themselves but it just seems like they skipped a few steps and went straight for the physical confrontation here

I guess only someone who knows police protocol can say for sure.... does Zulutango roam these threads? :badpokerface:

"Seems like" is really the key in all these kinds of videos, isn't it? Some people (like those in Pivot, who were clearly more than eager to give their input) just love to talk like they KNOW everything that happened leading up to a short clip like this. Certainly they all KNOW everything that's being said in the video, even without sound, right? You can lip-read, right? The guy is DEFINITELY NOT saying "fuck the police" the whole time, or "get your hands off me, I'll kill you pigs" or anything like that?

Lol, Montague. I don't believe a word that comes out of that idiot's mouth.

Not siding with either side at this point but from the security footage alone, it looks like the VPD used unnecessary force.

I agree with Dragon. Waiting for police videos before judging any further.

We are not defending or siding with the rider. If he was riding like a douche then he deserved to be arrested.
He was not resisting and was standing with his hands out when they took him down.
They could have easily talked him down even at gun point.
they dished out the punishment that's the courts job.
They are police they should act professional.

You know this because you were there? You can hear what's being said?

Taking a wild guess he was the guy in the video on the side

If he had actually killed some kid in a park, then was completely compliant. The actions would be justifiable then?

We agree that he was non-compliant during the pursuit. There could reason to believe he could have been luring them into a trap, putting his hands up in the air.

^ Did you guys see the title of the video???

:lol

yes i was standing 20 feet away

if the cops have to come get you, the're bring an ass kicking with them